https://techmonitor.ai/technology/silicon/arm-softbank-ai-chips-next-year

Arm is planning to sell AI chips by 2025. According to Nikkei, which broke the story, the UK-based chipmaker will create a dedicated AI chip department and build a prototype by the spring of next year, with mass production beginning by autumn. Specialising in creating chip architectures for firms like Nvidia and Intel, Arm is the latest semiconductor player to commit to creating AI chips, which promise to facilitate faster and more expansive training regimes for large language models. Tech Monitor has approached both Arm and Softbank for comment.

The news appears to be the culmination of efforts earlier this year by Softbank to create its own AI chip venture. Codenamed “Izanagi” after the creator god of Japanese mythology, the project aimed to raise $100bn from a variety of investors across the Middle East. The successful realisation of that project would, in theory, allow it to reduce its dependence on chip giants like Nvidia, which is likely to supply the silicon necessary to support the $960m expansion of Softbank's computing facilities that the investment company announced in April.